Film director James Cameron and producer Jon Landau arrived in Wellington, New Zealand on Sunday morning to prepare for the resumption of filming on the “Avatar” sequels.
The pair were amongst some 54 passengers on board a chartered Air New Zealand plane departing Friday night on the 13-hour flight to LAX to Wellington.
Those inbound travellers will be subject to a fourteen-day quarantine period. Landau announced the other week that the staff evacuated from New Zealand would be heading back to the country.
Production on the films had been shut down in mid-March when New Zealand began a strict lockdown in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, and largely closed its borders.
In order to be allowed into the country at a time when borders are officially still closed Cameron, Landau and the foreign crew elements used a border exemption clause for foreigners considered of ‘significant economic value’.
The production covers all of the second and third films in the series and half of the fourth. In the process it will use indoor facilities for the entire movie in studios across Wellington and Auckland.
